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...making martyrs of the underground writers. Polish officials dismiss the dissident writing as insignificant, but they regard its proliferation with dismay. Earlier this month, police confiscated 450 copies of Opinia in the Warsaw apartment of one of the journal's distributors. But that put only a modest dent in the magazine's circulation. About 5,000 copies of every issue are printed, and each copy is believed to have 20 to 30 attentive readers...
...conventional production methods, and work like Short Eyes must once again swim upstream to gain widespread attention. A sleeper must now feature something special to succeed, and Young's new film regrettably comes up short in enough areas to safely predict it will not make much of a dent in the industry, artistically or financially...
...half months, anything that the team did was pure gravy. They won the pennant despite all the verbal rattail-flicking that went on off the field, despite injuries to their pitching staff that clogged them throughout, despite having a $100,000 fungo hitter in Ken Holtzman, despite Bucky Dent's mediocrity, despite George Steinbrenner's obtrusive presence...
...most talked about import restrictions would not make a significant dent in the U.S. trade deficit, which is heading toward $30 billion or more this year, as compared with $6 billion last year. True, about $7.5 billion of this year's deficit is in trade with the Japanese; $22.4 billion is with the OPEC countries, and the U.S. right now has no choice but to import their oil. The U.S. actually enjoys a surplus, though a declining one, in trade with the European Community (see chart...
...think of anything worse. If we'd listened to the likes of Mills and Dent, the trust would still be about $27 million...